Your Alternative 2 is almost exactly what I did for my first "taster" Camino, what seems now to be way back when! And I got back to Paris by bus Logroño to Irun then train to Paris.
Buen Camino!!
Any Guardia Civil will tell you it is best to walk on the left, facing traffic. Of course in some mountain roads with scary drop offs this might be less advisable.
Not if the Guardia Civil are around!
Seriously, there is a correct side of the road to walk on, and that's facing traffic unless it's unsafe to do so.
Those walking according to their own whim can be a nuisance and danger to local motorists.
On the Via de la Plata my friend and I were walking on the right because it was the shady side. Guardia Civil came along and in no uncertain terms told us "Other side of the road" (in Spanish of course).
We complied, and once they were gone we...
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